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Bradley C. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Vice President for Information Technology & CIO, Professor of Information Systems, IU Kelley School of Business

Dr. Brad Wheeler has actively helped pioneer new models of collaboration that have changed the economics of information technology (IT) in higher education. Dr. Wheeler led the Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce in 2005 with its resulting plan to support the university's goals for doubling funded research and scholarship, especially in the life sciences, an area critical to economic development in the state. Dr. Wheeler led Indiana University's collaboration with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Purdue University, and IBM that resulted in doubling the capacity of the Big Red supercomputer. He serves on the board of directors for the Indiana University Research Technology Corporation.

Dr. Wheeler has been a pioneer in leveraged models for university collaboration. He serves in leadership roles for over $50M of shared university investments in open source software and was a co-founder of the Sakai Project and co-principal investigator on its $2.7M in grants and the $500K Open Source Portfolio project. He was a co-founder of the original Kuali Project, and now chairs the Kuali Foundation, Inc. board of directors. He has been a co-principal investigator on $4M of Kuali grants and three of the foundation.

He was appointed vice president for information technology and chief information officer for Indiana University in 2007 after serving as the interim CIO for 18 months. He is also the dean of IT for the Bloomington campus, and had previously served as associate dean for teaching and learning IT, associate vice president for research and academic computing, and associate vice president for community source initiatives. He leads University Information Technology Services with IT services across eight IU campuses, the IU global network operations center for Internet2 and National Lambda Rail, and the Pervasive Technology Labs.

As a professor of information systems at IU's Kelley School of Business, Dr. Wheeler has long taught MBA courses in Executive Leadership of IT Strategy, and has taught e-business and e-learning courses for corporate/academic audiences in 26 countries on six continents. He continues in mentoring graduate students and as an active member of the faculty.

Dr. Wheeler is a worldwide advocate for IT leadership in higher education via speaking and writing. He has served on a number of taskforces to shape the national agenda for IT in colleges and universities, and has been the keynote speaker for these topics in Australia, Canada, and the US.

Selected Publications and Presentations

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Selected International Leadership

  • Vice-Chairman, The Sakai Foundation, 2005-2006; Board member in charge of commercial relationships.
  • Vice-Chairman, The Sakai Project Board of Directors, 2004-2005; Board member in charge of commercial relationships.
  • Chairman, Kuali Foundation, Open Source Financial System, 2004-present
  • Chairman, Open Source Portfolio Board of Directors, 2004-2006
  • Chairman, Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce, 2004-2005.
  • Invited Delegate, EDUCAUSE Executive Summit on Open Source, 2004.

Selected Grants and Awards

  • Kuali Research Administration System (2006), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1.5M.
  • Open Source Student Services System (2006), Planning Grant, Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $38,000.
  • Acquisition of a High-Speed, High Capacity Storage System to Support Scientific Computing: The Data Capacitor (2005), Senior Investigator, $1.72M, National Science Foundation, #0521433, 2005-2008; C.A. Stewart, PI; R. Bramley, B. Plale, T. Hacker, and C. Pilachowski, Co-PIs.
  • The Kuali Project (2005), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $2,500,000 ($7.3M overall project).
  • The Twin Peaks Navigator (2004), Principal Investigator, Sun Microsystems, $32,000.
  • The Sakai Educational Partners Program (SEPP) (2004), Co-Principal Investigator, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $300,000 ($600k overall project for year 2004).
  • The ePortfolio Project (2003), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $518,000, ($1.1M overall project).
  • The Sakai Project (2003), Co-Principal Investigator & Vice-Chairman of the Sakai Board of Directors, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $2,400,000, ($6.8M overall project).

Contact Information

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Franklin Hall 116
601 East Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-856-5595
812-855-3310 (fax)
cio@iu.edu